Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

The reason is that any one person rarely has the bandwidth, interest, or skills to manage all the tasks required to build a business. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. Thus I find that two heads are usually better than one in a startup. Relocate to a more lucrative geography.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. I’m sure you have unique perspective on that.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 24, 2020

Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World : I pondered 2040 some during the week (Mario Cantin must have planted that seed in my mind) so I decided to time travel back to 2000 and read what George Gilder wrote. I Am Not Your Negro : There is a lot more James Baldwin in my future. This is the script for the movie.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2020

I’m convinced that the following personal strategies are required and practiced by every successful business leader, regardless of Silicon Valley myths to the contrary: Lead with business and technical acumen for people who count. We all have limited bandwidth, and it’s not possible to maintain relationships with everyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

Funded by military contracts, these 1950′s microwave tube startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. As a microwave preamp, it had high gain, low noise and extremely wide bandwidth. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Order Here.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Funded by military contracts these 1950′s startups would help build Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial culture and environment. While the Klystrons of the 1950’s had too narrow and bandwidth and were too large for airborne use, they could be scaled up to generate megawatts of power and were used to power the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. Tell us about a memorable celebrity encounter.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

I believe that Silicon Valley is like Las Vegas, except they make you pass a number of tests before they let you gamble. The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no money. What should Joe do? The product looks useful and promising.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Jim Dunlap, CIO of Alaska Telecom discussed with me the increasingly serious problem that telecom vendors are facing due to bandwidth consumption skyrocketing. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

To turn your company’s stock into cash, you engaged a top-notch investment bank (Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs) and/or their Silicon Valley compatriots (Hambrecht & Quist, Montgomery Securities, Robertson Stephens). In the 20th century learning the best practices of a startup CEO was limited by your coffee bandwidth.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

So over the course of a couple of weeks engineering cobbled up a board with dedicated silicon that could process the full bandwidth for NTSC and fill an entire window. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Peter Barrett digitized some files and we delivered the board and computer to Bruce. Order Here.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). “Silicon Valley” (see Note 2) is hardly alone in this urbanization of startups trend. far more huge companies in Silicon Valley. April 13, 2012. et al) were down on the peninsula.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2016

I’m convinced that the following personal strategies are required and practiced by every successful business leader, regardless of Silicon Valley myths to the contrary: Lead with business and technical acumen for people who count. We all have limited bandwidth, and it’s not possible to maintain relationships with everyone.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

. “Carriers are moving rapidly to IP-based mobile backhaul, and Wintegra’s product offering is uniquely positioned to enable this packet transition and breakthrough the bandwidth bottlenecks faced in mobile networks,&# said Greg Lang, president and chief executive officer of PMC-Sierra. is acquiring iSkoot Technologies Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. There’s a reason that Silicon Valley and Boston are hubs for high-tech startups. The right answer is to find a co-founder with complementary skills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

Well, as is the case with all software companies, the computers and bandwidth in the office were much better than the typical user's setup, so nobody saw the problem until we watched actual users in their natural environments. Laura Klein has been working in Silicon Valley as both an engineer and a UX professional for the last 15 years.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The brand of the firm matters, but you want to know exactly what partners you are going to work with, and you want to talk to companies they specifically have worked on, to understand how much bandwidth you’re going to get. Most of those firms are in Silicon Valley, because most of those companies are in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

High bandwidth, low noise. After a decade in Silicon Valley, I had finally learned to emulate empathy. I was essentially responsible for imparting a fire hose of technical information efficiently. At my next company, Zilog, it was the same – I taught microprocessor system design to engineers. Emulating Empathy.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

.   The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was.   In truth, our industry is built on a trust model.   Prudence wins out over blind trust.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

One startup I joined was very proud that they had been ‘accepted’ as a client by a prestigious Silicon Valley law firm whose name rhymes with a type of pasta (they are lawyers after all, so I have to be careful here…). Who are the best startup consultants in Silicon Valley?… Rhymes with a Type of Pasta.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you’re a Netflix subsriber with a mediocre bandwidth connection (DSL, esp in rural areas), DVD format will remain a must have for awhile. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. True was my top pick in Silicon Valley. When I was first starting companies in the late nineties it took $3 million just to get version one of our product out the door. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

available bandwidth for uploading (which is assumed away as easy but only in recent years has been solved. And I’ve opined on why the traditional media companies aren’t well poised to win at this new TV world. and again here. Media in an age of: low-cost capture from mobile devices. means specifically one thing.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Like an accelerator or incubator program, NestGSV gives its resident startups office space, advice and lots of other amenities (even a beach volleyball court) at its Redwood City, California, campus near Silicon Valley. Currently 22 are residing there, paying $550 a month for a desk with 300Mbps of Internet bandwidth.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people. Your writings are so very thought provoking, and now reading them will take a slice of my ever diminishing bandwidth.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 29, 2019

She is a Silicon Valley based strategic product and marketing executive, happens to be the Chief Product Officer at a project management tool called Obo. Because you only have so much bandwidth, right? John Jantsch: Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Looking back the reality has been different in so many ways, even for a jaded Silicon Valley veteran of layoffs and cool companies like myself. I went into Google with my own filters and expectations on what the experience would be like and what I would end up doing. I am a Consultant (a "red badge" as I often remark!).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 31, 2018

So on the positive side, we get what they call a reduction in friction out in Silicon Valley. It’s a much narrower bandwidth, is a simple way to think about it And then, of course, you think about email, it’s much, much worse. Meaning it’s much easier to send emails and everything else.

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